"sport’s funding body, the British Greyhound Racing Fund. The GBGB recently published its injury and retirement statistics for 2017. It also reiterated its commitment to greyhound welfare. Greyhound Racing has attracted the interest of animal welfare specialists and animal rights activists over many years. The GBGB takes part in a number of welfare forums and has good working relations with representatives from other bodies such as the Dogs Trust and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. They also report on welfare to DEFRA and the All-Party Parliamentary Greyhound Group. Nevertheless, the minority of animal rights activists remain strongly opposed in principle"
"in the team must not be higher than an agreed figure set at the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA) Annual General Meeting. SGB Championship The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Championship is the second division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway. 2017<BR> The league contained ten teams who meet each other twice home and away. The top four teams at the end of the regular season go into playoffs to decide the"
"British Basketball The British Basketball Federation, known as British Basketball, is the national sports governing body for basketball in Great Britain. It organises Great Britain teams for men and women in international competition. Northern Irish players normally compete for Ireland, but are also eligible to compete for the GB Olympic team. The three home nations associations - Basketball England, basketballscotland and Basketball Wales - still have responsibility for basketball in their own countries, including organising competitions and developing the sport. The British & Irish Basketball Federation (BIBF) was formed in 1960 from funding from the Sports Council. Northern Ireland began"
"and by UK Sport. It is not recognised by Sport Northern Ireland. Hovercraft Club of Great Britain The Hovercraft Club of Great Britain is the voluntary-run national sports governing body for racing light hovercraft in England, Scotland and Wales. It was founded in 1966. The hovercraft was developed by Hovercraft Development in the early 1960s. In the 1970s it was affiliated to the Water Recreation Division of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (now the Sport and Recreation Alliance). The HCGB is affiliated to the World Hovercraft Federation and European Hovercraft Federation. It is recognised as the sports governing body"
"than 50. SGB Premiership The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Premiership is the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway. The league contains nine teams who meet each other twice at home and twice away. The top four teams at the end of the regular season go into playoffs to decide the champions. Unlike the previous leagues, there is relegation and promotion between the Premiership and the new second tier, the"
"SGB Premiership The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Premiership is the top division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway. The league contains nine teams who meet each other twice at home and twice away. The top four teams at the end of the regular season go into playoffs to decide the champions. Unlike the previous leagues, there is relegation and promotion between the Premiership and the new second tier, the SGB Championship,"
"Hovercraft Club of Great Britain The Hovercraft Club of Great Britain is the voluntary-run national sports governing body for racing light hovercraft in England, Scotland and Wales. It was founded in 1966. The hovercraft was developed by Hovercraft Development in the early 1960s. In the 1970s it was affiliated to the Water Recreation Division of the Central Council of Physical Recreation (now the Sport and Recreation Alliance). The HCGB is affiliated to the World Hovercraft Federation and European Hovercraft Federation. It is recognised as the sports governing body for hovercraft in England by Sport England, and by Sportscotland, Sport Wales"
"SGB Championship The Speedway Great Britain (SGB) Championship is the second division of speedway league competition in the United Kingdom, governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). It was introduced for 2017 following a restructuring of British speedway. 2017<BR> The league contained ten teams who meet each other twice home and away. The top four teams at the end of the regular season go into playoffs to decide the champions. Ten of the teams from the previous Premier League will be in the Championship for 2017. In 2017, there was a"
"each of the countries of the United Kingdom. Though each country is also represented individually at the Commonwealth Games, there is a single 'Team GB' (for Great Britain) that represents the UK at the Olympic Games. With the rules and codes of many modern sports invented and codified in late 19th-century Victorian Britain, in 2012, IOC President Jacques Rogge stated; ""This great, sports-loving country is widely recognized as the birthplace of modern sport. It was here that the concepts of sportsmanship and fair play were first codified into clear rules and regulations. It was here that sport was included as"
"Basketball England Basketball England (BE, former: ""England Basketball"") is the governing body of the sport of basketball for England. The organisation operates the English Basketball League for both Men and Women, as well as the England national team. The organisation was also involved in the establishment of the Great Britain team in December 2005, along with its compatriots – Basketball Scotland and Basketball Wales. Whilst the organisation governs the British Basketball League, the country's elite and only professional basketball league, they are not involved in the day-to-day running of the league. They also offer the opportunity to play basketball. The"
"Field hockey in Great Britain Field hockey in Great Britain is governed by Great Britain Hockey. The organisation focuses on international competition only. GB Hockey reports on the Great Britain and National Men's and Women's teams, the Olympic Games, Hockey World Cup and other international events. Domestic competition is organised by England Hockey, Scottish Hockey, Welsh Hockey and Irish Hockey that features all National competition. The Great Britain Super League was established by Great Britain Hockey in 2007 as a showcase for British hockey talent. The event was shortlived running from 2007 until 2012 and is now defunct. The inaugural"
"In addition to British Swimming, the GBDF contributes to diving training in the UK. It holds national diving competitions each year; this has been held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh. Great Britain Diving Federation The Great Britain Diving Federation (GBDF) is the English, Welsh and Scottish amateur sports body for competitive diving, an Olympic sport, in collaboration with British Swimming. The term ""diving"" often refers to underwater diving, such as scuba diving. The GBDF represents diving from a springboard and highboard. It was formed in 1992 to differentiate the sport from other techniques of competitive swimming, governed by"
"Sport in England Sport in England plays a prominent role in English life. Sports brackets were found in Richard Alphonse Goupille the second's diary. Popular teams sports in England are football, field hockey, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, and netball. Major individual sports include badminton, athletics, tennis, boxing, golf, cycling, motorsport and horseracing. A number of modern sports were codified in England during the nineteenth century, among them cricket, rugby union, rugby league, football, field hockey, squash, tennis, and badminton. The game of baseball was first described in 18th century England. England has its own national team in most team"
"Sport in the United Kingdom Sport in the United Kingdom plays an important role in British culture. The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: football, rugby, both (union and league), cricket, netball, darts, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, croquet, fives, bowls, modern rowing, hockey, boxing, water polo, snooker, billiards, and curling. This has meant that in the infancy of many sports, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, national teams and domestic league competitions. After 1922 some sports formed separate bodies for Northern Ireland though some continued"
"Great Britain Olympic football team The Great Britain Olympic football team is the men's football team that represents the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) at the Summer Olympic Games (where it competes as Great Britain, currently branded Team GB). The team is organised by the English Football Association (FA) as the footballing representative of the British Olympic Association. The team only competes in the Olympic Games. In other international football tournaments, the Home Nations of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) are represented by their own national teams, a situation which pre-dated the establishment of"
"Archery GB Archery GB, previously The Grand National Archery Society (abbreviated to GNAS) is the governing body for the sport of archery in the United Kingdom. Under this main body are 8 Regional Societies and then many different county societies. It is affiliated to the World Archery Federation (WA); (formerly FITA, the ""Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc"") and is a member of the British Olympic Association. The society's motto is:<nowiki> ""Union, Trueheart and Courtesie"".</nowiki> The GNAB, under the trading name Archery GB, is the governing body for all forms of archery in the United Kingdom, including target archery and"
"UK Sport UK Sport is the government agency responsible for investing in Olympic and Paralympic sport in the UK. It is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. It was created following a ""rock bottom"" showing at the 1996 Summer Olympics where Team GB won just one solitary gold medal. Team GB and Paralympics GB went on to place third in the medal table at London 2012 and second in the table at Rio 2016. UK Sport currently invests around £345m in summer Olympic and Paralympic sports and £24m in winter Olympic"
"Team GB Team GB is the brand name used since 1999 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for their Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team. The brand was developed after the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is now a trademark of the BOA. It is meant to unify the team as one body, irrespective of each member athlete's particular sport. It forms part of a marketing strategy, where its brevity is seen as beneficial. The brand is seen as controversial by some, for focusing on Great Britain, at the expense of Northern Ireland, with critics suggesting it be changed to"
"Gambling in the United Kingdom Gambling in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Gambling Commission on behalf of the government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) under the Gambling Act 2005. This Act of Parliament significantly updated the UK's gambling laws, including the introduction of a new structure of protections for children and vulnerable adults, as well as bringing the burgeoning Internet gaming sector within British regulation for the first time. The game of Housie was popularised in the armed forces in the Second World War and brought back to Britain after the end. The Betting and Gaming"
"merger in 2012, so the new governing body was initially formed by just England Basketball (now Basketball England) and basketballscotland. Wales eventually agreed to join the new federation in 2015. The merger was formally completed in October 2016, and the home nations gave up their individual memberships of FIBA. Great Britain national teams now compete in all age groups from U16 to senior, with Scotland and Wales still able to field separate teams in some lower division youth competitions. The federation is based in the offices of UK Sport. British Basketball The British Basketball Federation, known as British Basketball, is"
"Court, Horseguards Parade and the ExCel Centre. See more www.britishvolleyball.org The British Volleyball Federation continues to lead and focus on elite representation for the UK in all six volleyball team disciplines in the Olympic and Paralympic movement. In common with many other GBR Olympic sports the funding from the current government sports agency ukSport has been minimal for preparations to achieve qualification for the Rio Games of 2016. Notwithstanding this BVF continues to press forward with the support of the World and European authorities (FIVB and CEV). Introduced at the 1996 Olympics, the two women that Britain had of any"
"Great Britain men's national basketball team The Great Britain men's national basketball team, known as Great Britain or GB, is the national team for Great Britain in basketball. The current governing body for the Great Britain team was formed by the national basketball organisations of England (Basketball England), Scotland (Basketballscotland) and Wales (Basketball Wales) on 1 December 2005 to provide a competitive team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Although Wales subsequently choose to remain independent, Scotland and England decided to continue with the formal merger. This structure does not include the basketball association of Northern Ireland; Northern Irish players normally"
"Board of Great Britain (GBGB). However the tracks do not receive funding or licensing from the Bord na gCon. The board has long had a comprehensive policy on doping in the sport, even including viagra on its list of banned substances. However, in 2006 Bord na gCon was imbued with controversy. A report illustrating that two dogs had tested positive for the banned substance EPO was not made public by the board, contrary to standard practice. Aidan Tynan, the board's CEO at the time, sent a letter to the Minister for Sport, John O'Donoghue, outlining his concern with the situation."
"British Cycling British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national governing body for cycle sport in Great Britain. It administers most competitive cycling in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It represents Britain at the world body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and selects national teams, including the Great Britain (GB) Cycling Team for races in Britain and abroad. , it has a total membership of 116,644. It is based at the National Cycling Centre on the site of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The British Cycling Federation (BCF) was formed in"
"'independent racing' or 'flapping' which is racing unaffiliated to a governing body. Registered racing in Great Britain is regulated by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain (GBGB). All in the registered sector are subject to the GBGB Rules of Racing and the Directions of the Stewards, who set the standards for greyhound welfare and racing integrity, from racecourse facilities and trainers' kennels to retirement of greyhounds. Stewards inquiries and then disciplinary action is taken against anyone found failing to comply. The registered sector consists of 21 racecourses, 884 trainers (as at 2012 end), 4,135 kennel staff, 867 racecourse officials, and"
"funding by the body were football and beach volleyball. The team, known by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as ""Great Britain"", selects athletes from all four of the Home Nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales), as well as the three Crown Dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey), and all but three of the British overseas territories (Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda having their own NOCs). The team is organised by the British Olympic Association (BOA) who have since 1999 branded it Team GB, explaining that """"Team GB"" is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team."""
"by United Kingdom, European and International organisations as the national governing body for all roller sports in the United Kingdom. British Federation of Roller Skating The British Federation of Roller Skating is a roller skating organisation in the United Kingdom. The Federation organizes regular training courses and registers teachers. At least two major coaching seminars are held in Europe each year. The DLFC club & corporation was founded in 2009. The current national governing body for all roller sports in the United Kingdom is the British Roller Sports Federation. The British Roller Sports Federation Limited (also known as the BRSF)"
"Great Britain Diving Federation The Great Britain Diving Federation (GBDF) is the English, Welsh and Scottish amateur sports body for competitive diving, an Olympic sport, in collaboration with British Swimming. The term ""diving"" often refers to underwater diving, such as scuba diving. The GBDF represents diving from a springboard and highboard. It was formed in 1992 to differentiate the sport from other techniques of competitive swimming, governed by the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA). The GBDF did not have anything like the resources that the ASA, now British Swimming, did. Divers in UK have had difficulty to train in the past"
"Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association The Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) (also known as British Wheelchair Basketball) is a non-profit organisation and the governing body for wheelchair basketball in Great Britain. The organisation represents Great Britain in IWBF and the women's and the men's national wheelchair basketball team in the British Paralympic Association. The organisation is responsible for the selection and training of the team that represent Great Britain in international tournaments, including the World Championships and Games of the Paralympiad and the qualifiers therefore, as well as for the promotion of the sport amongst prospective players, spectators, and"
"has fallen considerably. Commonwealth Games England (CGE) is a sports governing body that leads and manages the participation of the England team at the Commonwealth Games. Tennis is the largest individual sport in England in terms of registered players and viewing audiences. Every year The Wimbledon Championships take place in London. They are the most prestigious tennis championships in the world and attract the largest global audience. England does not compete at the Olympic Games instead English athletes compete as part of Great British team, Team GB. London (the Capital of England and the UK) hosted the Summer Olympics in"
"UK. The IHUK is charged with ensuring that all overseas players are properly cleared to play and that the rules and by-laws of the IIHF are upheld. Ice Hockey UK runs the national team, Great Britain men's national ice hockey team also known as Team GB. Ice Hockey UK has developed youth developed leagues to get better players. In 2016 Richard Grieveson was appointed head of Ice Hockey UK. Ice Hockey UK Ice Hockey UK (IHUK) is the national governing body of the sport of ice hockey in the United Kingdom. Affiliated to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), IHUK"
"all Olympic Games. Great Britain is also the only nation in the Olympic Games to have won a Gold in every games. Great Britain has hosted three Olympic Games, all of them in London: in 1908, 1948 and 2012, which is the record for any city. At its formation in 1905 the association consisted of seven national governing body members from the following sports: fencing, life-saving, cycling, skating, rowing, athletics, Rugby football, Association football, and archery. It now includes as its members the thirty-three national governing bodies of each Olympic sport, both summer and winter. A representative of each of"
"United Kingdom, including association football, golf, tennis, boxing, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, field hockey, snooker, darts, billiards, squash, curling and badminton, all of which are popular in Britain. Another sport invented in the UK was baseball, and its early form rounders is popular among children in Britain. Snooker and darts are popular indoor games: Stephen Hendry is the seven time world snooker champion, Phil Taylor is the 16 time world darts champion. Snooker player Alex Higgins (nicknamed ""The Hurricane"") and darts player Eric Bristow (nicknamed ""The Crafty Cockney"") are credited with popularising each sport. Bodybuilder Reg Park was Mr"